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- An international competition determined the design of the Shrine of Remembrance. Australian artists and architects submitted 83 designs. Two Melbourne returned-soldier architects, Philip Hudson and James Wardrop created the winning design. Their design was inspired by the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Apr 3, 2024 · An international competition determined the design of the Shrine of Remembrance. Australian artists and architects submitted 83 designs. Two Melbourne returned-soldier architects, Philip Hudson and James Wardrop created the winning design. Their design was inspired by the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Originally built to honour the. 114,000 Victorians who served in the First World War (1914–18), the shrine now. commemorates all Victorians who have served in war and peacekeeping. Design for...
The Shrine is known to be Melbourne’s most important Public Monument. The design for the shrine was based on the Parthenon in Athens and the tomb of Mausolus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and symbolizes both the democratic tradition for which the soldiers died and the eternity of their afterlife. In 1929 Hudson and Wardrop partnered with ...
Designed by architects Phillip Hudson and James Wardrop, both World War I veterans, the Shrine is in classical style, based on the Tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus and the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The crowning element at the top of the ziggurat roof references the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates.
The original building was designed by Phillip Hudson and James Wardrop, who both served in the war. Like a lot of buildings in the interwar period it’s a mash-up of architectural ideas – here grand temple fronts and stepped pyramid create an ‘in the round’ building that can be seen from every side.
Jul 30, 2015 · Philip B. Hudson and James H. Wardrop’s original Shrine of Remembrance (1923–34) has been hallowed if not fraught ground indeed since its competition victory. 1 Subscription-built, the Shrine was a labour of love, large by any standards. It teems with symmetrically placed symbolism and with a kinetic dimension in its sanctuary light angling ...
Nov 11, 2014 · Two new courtyards designed by ARM Architecture and Rush\Wright complete the axial symmetry of an earlier masterplan envisioned for Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance. Aerial view of the Shrine of Remembrance. When it was first built in 1933, Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance by Hudson & Wardrop was a mausoleum for the fallen.
